Building-paper.



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BUILDING PAPER.

(Application led Feb. 16, 1901.)

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- UNITED .i STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JEFFREY T. FERRES, OF ANDERSON, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO J. W. SEFTON iMANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE AND CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BUILDING-PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming' part o'f Letters Patent N o. 676,183, dated June11, 1901.

Application filed February 16, 1901. Serial No. 47,610. (No specimens.)

of frame buildings for the purpose of rendering their walls more nearlyair-tight and impervious to moisture. The building-paper now in commonuse for this purpose is not entirely satisfactory, even when a boardsheathing is first applied to the outer face of the framework ofthebuilding and the paper applied to such board sheathing and the"weather-boarding then nailed on over the paper, and when in the cheaperclasses of buildings this board sheathing intermediate `the.

weather-boarding and the frame of the building is omitted and the paperhas to be tacked directly to the outer face of the framework of thebuilding and has nothing to support it between the joists and otherseparated parts of such framework the paper is apt to get torn andmutilated prior to or during the application of the weather-boarding,and after the weather-boarding is applied it is easily aected by air andmoisture penetrating the joints in the weather-boarding. So, too, therebeing nothing to hold the overlapping edges of the sheets of papertogether along their horizontal joints they are apt to sag away 1 fromeach other between the joists and leave In the accompanying drawings,Figure l represents a continuous strip or sheet of double-facedcorrugated paper intended for my improved building-paper as the same isdelivered from the machine; Fig. 2, an elevation of the side of a framebuilding having sheets or boards of said paper applied to it;

Fig. 3, a vertical section showing the completed wall of such buildingwith my improved building-paper interposed between the weather-boardingandthe framework of` in Fig. l is formed upon any suitable ma!chine-such, for instance, as that illustrated and described in mypending application, Serial NORM-9,196, filed March l5, 1899; butinsteadof employing upper and lower facingsheets A B of the same width as theintermediate corrugated sheets C said upper and lower sheets are ofgreater width than the intermediate sheet and project at opposite edgesof the latter, as shown. ous strip ory sheet of double-faced paper orboard may be of the usual. or any suitable width-say from twenty fourvto thirtysix inches-and it can be cut transversely into separate boardsor sheets of any desired size for the purpose described, as indicated bythe dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 2. The width of these Aseparate boardsor sheets will be immaterial where the wall of the frame building is tobe provided with the board sheathing heretofore described, sinceit willthen be immaterial where the'vertical joints between the vertical rowsof boards or sheets may happen to come; but where no such boardsheathing is employed then the corrugated boards or sheets will be cutof such width as to conform to the distances between the j oists oruprights of the framework, so that the vertical joints between thevertical rows of such boards or sheets may coincide with such joists oruprights and the edges of the sheets be tightly nailed to such uprights.In applying these boards or sheets to the building the boards Thiscontinuj IGO will be placed in position for the extensions j of thefacing-sheetsA B to .project at the upper and lower edges of the. board,and the boards will be so applied thatthe inner facingsheets of theboards will project at the top of the sheets and the outer facing-sheetsat the bottom.

Referring to Figs. 2 and 3, the application of the boards to a buildingwill be readily understood. The work is preferably begun at the bottomand the lowermost board in a given vertical row nailed securely to thesheathing D and joists E by a horizontal row of nails along its loweredge and two vertical rows along its opposite sides or by the verti-`cal rows alone in event no sheathing is employed and the board is to besecured to the joists alone. The next board above is then applied, withtheY lower edge of its'body portio'nabu-tting against the upper edge ofthe, bodyportionl of the lower board and with its baickresting againstthe upwardly-projecting extension of the inner facing-sheet of the lowerbeard, While the depending extension ofV its own outer facing-sheetoverlaps and rests' `against the upper part of the body portien of thelower board, and inthis position thezsecond board is nailed to thesheathing and jnists by vertical rows of nails at its opposite sides andby two horizontal rows at its lower edge, the lower one of saidhorizontal row's'of nails passing through the. depending extension ofthe outer facing-.sheet of the upper board and the upper portion of theblOdy of thelower-board and the uppenone of said' rows of nails passingthrough the lower portion of the body of the upper board and thevertically-projecting extension of the inner facing-sheet of the lowerboard, as clearly indicated in Fig. 2 and shown in Fig. 3. The.succeeding boards in vertical rows are app-lied and secured in likemanner until the tdpgofthe wall ofthe building is reached, and

,then` the next adjacent vertical row is applied an air-space, (withinthe corrugations ofthe sheets-or boards,) which will aid materially inpreventing the temperature of the inside of the-'Wall of the buildingfrom being affected bythe temperature at the outside thereof, and thusserve to protect the interior of the building. from. the effects ofexternal cold in winter and external heat in summer.

Where no board sheathing D is employed, the'. horizontal' jointsbetween; the adjacent horizentalrowsof boards cannot' be made sosecurefand air-tightas wherethe board sheath'- ing is employed, sincethe overlapping edges of the boardscannot then be nailed together, asabove described; but even in such case my improved sheets or boards aremuch superior to the sheets of common building-paper now employed, sincethey are much stronger and more rigid, and therefore more dnrableandless liable to become torn or otherwise muti-- lated. The horizontaljoints between the adjacent rows of boards are much tighter than suchjoints can possibly be maintained between the sheets of thea paper nowin use, and

g the advantages of the dead-air space within the sheets or boardsthemselves, above described, are attained to substantially the samedegree as where the board sheathing D is employed.

In ordinary buildingpaper now in use a .j preparation of coalftar isordinarily employed l for coatn g and waterprooin gthep'ap'er,w\1;1ieh\- serves such purpose, but also renders the pe* perhighly inflam mable. In the manufacture yof my improved paper after thecorrugated I sheet or board shown in Figli has been made .'I pass itbetween rollers running in a preparation of asphaltum and asbestosfdust,which coats both surfaces of the sheet and renders them waterproof andto a very considerable degree fireproof `as well. This coating,containing asphaltum, will also render the paper vermin-proof so long asthe paper retains the odor of asphaltum; but for the purpose ofrendering the paper permanently verminproof I mix corrosive s ublimatein the paste which is employed for pasting the facing sheets to theopposite sides of the corrugated sheet in the original manufacture ofthe paper. The corrosive sublimate thus employed not only renders thepaper vermin-proof, but operates as a disinfectant also The corrugatedsheet of paper shown in Fig.

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1 is corrugated transversely as it passes through the corrugating-machine,and the facing-strips applied to its oppositesidestherefore project from the opposite edges of the corrugated sheetat'the ends of and at right IIO angles to the corrugations, so that whenthe sheets or boards are applied to arbuilding,'as in Figs. 2 ands, thecorrugations extend vertically from the bottom to thetop of the wall ofthe building and furnish free passage for air, the corrugations beingopen at both top and bottom and permitting the air contained in them tofreely rise as itbecomes warm and to escape at the top and fresh air tobe drawn in at the bottom. This arrangement is ade vantageous where itis desired to permit cirf culation of air in` the Wall of thebllldingforthe purpose of preserving a minimum temperature within thebuilding,as in the construction ofsummer-cottages,ice-houses,coldstorage buildings, and the like. l Forsome f purposes, however, it isdesirable toprovide the walls of abuilding with dead-air spaces, in which the air is not permitted tocirculate freely, and in such cases the building-paper shown in Fig. 4:may be employed. paper the'corrugations of the middle sheet are formedlongitudinally of the paper in its initial manufacture-as, for instance,by the method and apparatus shown and described in LettersPatentNo.654,884, of July 31, 1900, to Ferres and Ferres-and theextensions of the facing-sheets at the opposite sides of the corrugatedsheet therefore extend longitudinal of and parallel with thecorrugations instead of at rightangles thereto, as in the sheet of Fig.1.

When the sheets or boards formed from the paper shown in Fig. 4 areapplied to the wall of a building in the same manner as the paper ofFig. 1, heretofore described, the corrugations will extend horizontallyalong the wall of the building instead of vertically, and thereby serveto form dead-air spaces in which the air is not permitted to circulatefreely. This arrangement will be employed` where it is desirable toVprovide the wall of a building with such dead air spaces for thepurpose of protecting the interior of the building from external heatand cold.

While designed primarily as a substitute for the ordinary building-papernow in use, as described, it will be manifest that the continuous stripof double-faced paper (shown in Figs. land 4) having theoppositely-projecting facing-sheets, may be employed for other purposesand cut to suit-able size therefor.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claiml. As a new article ofmanufacture,a continuous strip or sheet of double-faced corrugated paperprovided with facing-sheets of greater wid th than the intermediatecorrugated sheet y described.

3. As a new article of manufacture a sheet or board of double-facedcorrugated paper provided at its upper and lower edges with extensionsof the opposite facing-sheets thereof and coated with a waterproofingand lireprooiing material, substantially as described.

4. As a new article of manufacture, asheet or board of double-facedcorrugated paper provided at its upper and lower edges with extensionsof the opposite facing-'sheets thereof and coated with a waterproofingand fireproong material composed of asphaltum and asbestos-dust orequivalent material, substantially as described.

5. As a new article of manufacture, a sheet or board of double-facedcorrugated paper provided at its upper and lower edges with extensionsof the opposite facing-sheets thereof and having its oppositefacingsheets pasted to the intermediate corrugated sheet with pastecontaining corrosive sublimate, and coated 'with a waterproofing andfireproofing material, substantially as described.

JEFFREY T. FERRES.

Witnesses:

D. H. DURBIN, CLARENCE C. LEIB.

